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XBT

What crypto means by it

An alternative ticker for bitcoin, following the convention that currencies belonging to no country start with X. You will meet it mostly on trading venues and in financial data feeds.

What you already know this as

The same naming rule that gives gold the code XAU. It marks something as belonging to no single country.

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